TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding and Promoting Industrial Sustainability in Africa Through the Triple Helix Approach
T2 - a Conceptual Model and Research Propositions
AU - Quartey, Samuel Howard
AU - Oguntoye, Olamide
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - This paper explores how THA contribute to the understanding and promotion of industrial sustainability in Africa. There is a growing interest in the promotion of industrial sustainability in African countries; however, this attention is without much theoretical understanding. The new development agenda for African economies is industrial sustainability. While the agenda is possible through well-managed interactions between industries, universities, and governments, an exploration of how this can happen remains less understood. Using a systematic review approach, a thematic analysis of the triple helix literature revealed that despite the current limitations, stakeholders can find common grounds to leverage available opportunities to improve innovation and knowledge-based industrialization towards industrial sustainability. This paper proposes a conceptual model and research propositions to guide future research that seeks to illustrate how key stakeholders in the triple helix framework can effectively contribute to social, economic, and environmental wellbeing through industrial sustainability. This paper concludes that maximizing enablers and minimizing barriers that confront possible interconnections and interrelationships between universities, industries, governments, and their intermediaries could be a useful starting point towards the understanding and promotion of industrial sustainability in Africa.
AB - This paper explores how THA contribute to the understanding and promotion of industrial sustainability in Africa. There is a growing interest in the promotion of industrial sustainability in African countries; however, this attention is without much theoretical understanding. The new development agenda for African economies is industrial sustainability. While the agenda is possible through well-managed interactions between industries, universities, and governments, an exploration of how this can happen remains less understood. Using a systematic review approach, a thematic analysis of the triple helix literature revealed that despite the current limitations, stakeholders can find common grounds to leverage available opportunities to improve innovation and knowledge-based industrialization towards industrial sustainability. This paper proposes a conceptual model and research propositions to guide future research that seeks to illustrate how key stakeholders in the triple helix framework can effectively contribute to social, economic, and environmental wellbeing through industrial sustainability. This paper concludes that maximizing enablers and minimizing barriers that confront possible interconnections and interrelationships between universities, industries, governments, and their intermediaries could be a useful starting point towards the understanding and promotion of industrial sustainability in Africa.
KW - Africa
KW - Conceptual model
KW - Industrial sustainability
KW - Research propositions
KW - Triple helix
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084637772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s13132-020-00660-2
DO - 10.1007/s13132-020-00660-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084637772
SN - 1868-7865
VL - 12
SP - 1100
EP - 1118
JO - Journal of the Knowledge Economy
JF - Journal of the Knowledge Economy
IS - 3
ER -